Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar
Misunderstandings in intercultural communication may occur because of many factors, one of which can be attributed to differences in cultural communication style and values. Focusing on the narrations of five native and five non-native English teachers, this study aims to understand if misunderstand...
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| description | Misunderstandings in intercultural communication may occur because of many factors, one of which can be attributed to differences in cultural communication style and values. Focusing on the narrations of five native and five non-native English teachers, this study aims to understand if misunderstandings occur while they are working in a school setting. A qualitative research in design, this study uses discourse analysis as a framework to analyse data. Specifically, Hofstede’s (1984) Cultural Dimension, Hall’s (1983) High/Low Context Cultures and Ting-Toomey’s (1999) Intercultural Conflict Management Skills were combined as a model to analyse data. Findings suggest that the participants perceived to experience misunderstandings while working together with majority of these misunderstandings being due to a difference in cultural variations in communication styles and values. The findings of this study would benefit researchers, educators, practitioners as well as travellers and in particular those who specialises in intercultural communications. Nonetheless, due to the limitation of the participants involved and the restricted school setting, findings cannot be generalised. |
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| spelling | um-83692020-08-04T19:53:04Z Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar Nurhezrin , Anuar P Philology. Linguistics Misunderstandings in intercultural communication may occur because of many factors, one of which can be attributed to differences in cultural communication style and values. Focusing on the narrations of five native and five non-native English teachers, this study aims to understand if misunderstandings occur while they are working in a school setting. A qualitative research in design, this study uses discourse analysis as a framework to analyse data. Specifically, Hofstede’s (1984) Cultural Dimension, Hall’s (1983) High/Low Context Cultures and Ting-Toomey’s (1999) Intercultural Conflict Management Skills were combined as a model to analyse data. Findings suggest that the participants perceived to experience misunderstandings while working together with majority of these misunderstandings being due to a difference in cultural variations in communication styles and values. The findings of this study would benefit researchers, educators, practitioners as well as travellers and in particular those who specialises in intercultural communications. Nonetheless, due to the limitation of the participants involved and the restricted school setting, findings cannot be generalised. 2017 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8369/4/hezrin.pdf Nurhezrin , Anuar (2017) Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar. Masters thesis, University of Malaya. http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8369/ |
| spellingShingle | P Philology. Linguistics Nurhezrin , Anuar Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar |
| title | Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar |
| title_full | Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar |
| title_fullStr | Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar |
| title_short | Cultural differences in communication between native and non-native ESL teachers / Nurhezrin Anuar |
| title_sort | cultural differences in communication between native and non-native esl teachers / nurhezrin anuar |
| topic | P Philology. Linguistics |
| url | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8369/ http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8369/4/hezrin.pdf |